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LONGTERMISM: Why You Should Care About Future People

The Next Big Idea

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Is There a Correlation Between Happiness and Happiness?

How do you think of human well-being today compared with our ancestral past? The thing that I think is true is that hunter-gatherers had better lives than agriculturalists. They were still at risk of dying from various diseases or an infected wound, or kind of raiding from another group. And based on a lot of anthropological accounts, it feels to me like an argument can be made that the way that people live together, frequency of laughter, connection may have been greater in some hunter-gatherer environments.

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